A trans woman with a pink identity card was not allowed to enter a spa facility in Balıkesir province. Kırancı filed a complaint to the prosecutor.

Stelyo Berber from Imroz underlined that their island became a "childless" island for half a century and added: "It was the most concrete step for 50 years."

Turkey's Public Inspection Institution is now accepting first ombudsperson complaints at governor offices across the country.

Cenap Kürümoğlu, a local newspaper owner, has been battered by two unidentified individuals this morning.

Two environment advocacy organizations have filed three seperate lawsuits against hotel constructions in Cappadocia, a historical site with its worldwide-known fairy chimneys.

A Silopi district court ordered Peace and Democracy Party deputy Sebahat Tuncel to pay roughly 12,000 euros for slapping a police chief at a Newroz celebration in 2011.

Reacting to the ratification of Uludere report in a parliamentarian commission yesterday, Peace and Democracy Party deputy Ertuğrul Kürkçü said the parliament missed the opportunity to be the constituent force of the peace ongoing process.

Amnesty International released a 38 page report on the freedom of expression in Turkey today, underlining a series of articles in Turkish Penal Code and Anti-Terror Act that potentially violated the freedom of expression.

Munich's Higher Regional Court declined to reserve any courtroom seats to Turkey's media in the hearing of National Socialist Underground, a neo-Nazi cell suspected for the murder of 10 people including 8 with Turkish roots.

A Diyarbakır military court found Kıvanç Ağaoğlu guilty of felony murder of Sevag Balıkçı, a Turkish Armenian who was shot dead under compulsory military service on April 24, 2011 - 96th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Alper Çağlar’s latest movie Dağ (Mountain) received this year's Golden Okra Award - an alternative prize established in 2009 against the overwhelming predominance of the patriarchal perspective and male gaze and the continuing constriction of space for women in Turkish cinema.

According to a report released by a children rights association, at least 609 children lost their lives in Turkey with 38 in workplace and 20 in school.